Graham Tiffany said detached youth workers had expressed "major concern" at the government's use of information monitoring systems such as ContactPoint and were ready to walk out.
He was speaking last week following the organisation's annual conference, this year entitled "Detached Youth Work In A Multi-Agency Integrated Setting - A Brave New World?".
Tiffany said the type of questions detached youth workers were asking young people for risk assessments went against the principles of their work.
"We have to collect information on their lifestyles, about their parents and extended families," he said. "It doesn't seem to be appropriate for detached youth workers to be pressured into asking people whether anyone in their family is a prostitute or a drug addict."
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